{"id":3474,"date":"2008-12-26T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T12:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/12\/oremus\/"},"modified":"2008-12-26T12:02:37","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T12:02:37","slug":"oremus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/12\/oremus\/","title":{"rendered":"Oremus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1226Detail<\/a><\/span>
\nThe Prayer of the Faithful<\/strong>
\nThe Prayer of the Faithful for the Ordinary Form of the Mass poses a number of complex problems. The lack of one or more stable texts, or of texts suitable for each Mass, composed according to the norms promulgated from Rome on 13 January 1965 and again on 17 April 1966, is not the least of these. Readers, tell me if you have a Prayer of the Faithful (Bidding Prayers or General Intercessions) at daily Mass? What is the state of current practice in parishes and other communities?<\/em>
\nBy Whom and in What Manner?<\/strong>
\nIt should be noted that, at the beginning of the restoration of the so-called Universal Prayer, it was envisaged that the intentions would be sung following the models of chant given in the Graduale Simplex<\/em> and that the act of proposing the intentions to the people would belong 1) to the priest himself in the style of the ancient Roman usage, or 2) to the deacon. Only in the absence of a deacon should the function be assigned to another “suitable person.” <\/em>
\nWhere?<\/strong>
\nMsgr Klaus Gamber argues that, following the oldest traditions, the intentions should be proposed by the deacon standing in front of the altar and facing it. The practice of proposing the intentions from the ambo derives from the late-medieval French Prières du Prône<\/u>. An instruction from the Congregation of Rites, dated 26 September 1964, says this:<\/em><\/p>\n

In places where the Universal Prayer or Prayer of the Faithful is already the custom, it shall take place before the Offertory, after the Oremus<\/em>, and, for the time being with the formularies in use in individual regions. The celebrant is to lead the prayer at either his chair, the altar, the lectern, or the edge of the sanctuary. A deacon, cantor, or other suitable minister may sing the intentions or intercessions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Clearly Confusing<\/strong>
\nThe “instruction” is riddled with options, making it vague and confusing. It was instructions such as these that set the stage for the disorientation and chaos that have so marked the “Church at prayer” in the past forty-five years.
\nShould the General Intercessions be allowed to fall into abeyance? Can they be salvaged? What are the chances of recovering a form of the Prayer of the Faithful that is dignified, hieratic, and in harmony with what Mr. Edmund Bishop called “the genius of the Roman Rite”?<\/p>\n

General Intercessions for the Feast of Stephen<\/strong><\/div>\n

That like Saint Stephen, the praying Church, filled with the Holy Spirit,
\nmay gaze into heaven
\nand see there the glory of God
\nand Jesus standing at the right hand of he Father,
\nto the Lord we pray, Christ hear us. R. Christ, graciously hear us.<\/em>
\nThat world leaders of good will
\nmay turn from every project of war
\nto collaborate sincerely and effectively in the pursuit of peace,
\nto the Lord we pray, Christ hear us. R. Christ, graciously hear us.<\/em>
\nThat those who suffer for the sake of Christ and the Gospel
\nmay be consoled by the Holy Spirit;
\nand that the sick and the dying
\nmay be moved by the Holy Spirit
\nto pray, like Stephen, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit,”
\nto the Lord we pray, Christ hear us. R. Christ, graciously hear us.<\/em>
\nThat the deacons of the Church,
\nand men preparing for the Holy Diaconate,
\nmay find in Saint Stephen a model of the holiness to which they are called,
\nand a powerful intercessor,
\nto the Lord we pray, Christ hear us. R. Christ, graciously hear us.<\/em>
\nThat, like Saint Stephen the Protomartyr,
\nwe may find in the psalms the very prayer of Christ to the Father,
\nand the words given by the Holy Spirit for our own prayer to Christ
\nto the Lord we pray, Christ hear us. R. Christ, graciously hear us.<\/em>
\nOration<\/strong>
\nAlmighty and ever-living God,
\nby whose gracious will
\nthe Holy Spirit indwells and overshadows
\nthe Body of your only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ,
\nmercifully grant that we may experience
\nin our prayer and in our lives
\nthat glorious unity that is the fruit
\nnot of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man
\nbut of the will of your Christ
\nand of the power of your Holy Spirit.
\nThrough the same Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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